Sublime

effective preservation must rest in large measure on the cultivation of new social practices to attend our new media. These

book Profiles of the Future.

absence of any substantive or credible promises of a better future.

The practico-inert was thus Sartre’s way of designating the sedimented, institutional everyday world constituted out of human energy but manifested as the immense accumulation of routine passive activity.

It is attained not by the making of similar individuals, as theories of mass society used to assert, but through the reduction or elimination of differences, by narrowing the range of behaviors that can function effectively or successfully in most contemporary institutional contexts.

Unfortunately, many on the left in the early 1970s regarded any attention to environmental issues as a diversion from the anti-war and liberation struggles of the time.

there is no more accountability to anyone or anything.

One of those conditions can be characterized as a generalized inscription of human life into duration without breaks, defined by a principle of continuous functioning. It is a time that no longer passes, beyond clock time.

The problem here is not to be construed as the permeability between some undefiled “inner life” and external techniques and processes. Rather, it is one sign of a larger tendency to reconceive all facets of individual experience as continuous and compatible with the requirements of accelerated 24/7 consumerism.